The county Education Chief Officer Monicah Fedha has dismissed the lists of beneficiaries doing rounds on social media and called on the locals to ignore it.

Fedha noted that the list of beneficiaries are prepared by the Ward bursary committees at each respective Ward.

"The instructions on the amount to be allocated to each student is very clear, as per the policy direction given by the Governor, the minimum allocation for boarders in any given institution is KSh10,000 while for day schoolers we are supporting lunch expenses at KSh5,000 which may be paid in two tranches," she said.

Fedha says so far, only 3 Wards have submitted their lists of beneficiaries to her office.

"I am under strict instructions to ensure that the directive given by County Chief concerning the allocated amounts is adhered to, please ignore the above list because we Will not process any fees disbursement to schools based on such a list that defies the Governor's policy directive," she said.

However, Khalaba ward MCA Okumu Majimbo says that the executive is planning to reallocate money meant for other projects and use them for bursaries.

He says that during the consideration of the Budget 2017/18, the county assembly approved a sum of KSh 20 million towards some improvements at kanduyi stadium.

"The new county executive member through the 1st supplementary budget has recommended that the Ksh20 million be removed and be allocated to bursary fund, This is unacceptable and we will resist in the assembly until the recommendation is defeated during the debate," majimbo warned.

Governor Wycliffe Wangamati has been categorical in his speeches that his administration had increased the bursary funds allocation to KSh 400 million up from KSh 180 million by the previous administration that was led by the former governor Ken Lusaka.

"I want to see that all children are in school, every deserving case will be handled the way it deserves, poverty should not be a hindrance to them realizing their dreams, the county government will support them," he said.

In December 2017 Wangamati announced that his administration had saved KSh 100 million and was planning to save KSh 1.2 billion by June 2018 through fighting corruption cartels and banning foreign travels of senior county government officials.

"In order to reduce wastage of resources which can be ploughed back to the community my administration has stopped all unnecessary foreign trips and all seminars will be held within the county hotels, corruption will completely be slayed during my term in office ," he said.

Wangamati said that 40,000 beneficiaries will each get KSh 10,000 from the KSh400 million allocated for bursaries this year.

He said that in the first phase the county government will distribute KSh 180 million and wait for the passage of the supplementary budget by the county assembly where KSh 220 million will be distributed later.

However, locals are accusing Wangamati of making empty pledges.

The irked social media followers have accused the governor of playing Public Relations and not fulfilling what he promised.

"Our governor is still campaigning and making pledges, let him sit down and implement those pledges or else he will be a one term governor just like Lusaka, we don't need PRs now, we need to see projects kicking off," said Silas Wambulwa.

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